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| - | '''Joseph Marie Eugène Sue''' ([[January 20]], [[1804]]–[[August 3]], [[1857]]), [[France|French]] [[novelist]], was born in [[Paris]]. He was the author of the '[[penny dreadful]]' ''[[The Mysteries of Paris]]'', which inspired [[Karl Marx]]'s only text concerning literature: ''[[The Holy Family (book)|The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism]]''. | ||
| - | == Overview == | + | # The [[sudden]] [[overthrow]] of a [[government]], differing from a revolution by being carried out by a small group of people who replace only the leading figures. |
| - | He was the son of a distinguished surgeon in [[Napoleon]]'s army, and is said to have had the [[Joséphine de Beauharnais|Empress Joséphine]] for godmother. Sue himself acted as surgeon both in the Spanish campaign undertaken by France in 1823 and at the [[Battle of Navarino]] (1828). In 1829 his father's death put him in possession of a considerable fortune, and he settled in Paris. | + | |
| - | His naval experiences supplied much of the materials of his first novels, ''Kernock le pirate'' (1830), ''Atar-Gull'' (1831), ''La Salamandre'' (2 vols., 1832), ''La Coucaratcha'' (4 vols., 1832-1834), and others, which were composed at the height of the [[Romanticism|Romantic movement of 1830]]. In the quasi-historical style he wrote ''Jean Cavalier, ou Les Fanatiques des Cevennes'' (4 vols., 1840) and ''Lautréaumont'' (2 vols., 1837). | + | ====Synonyms==== |
| - | + | * [[coup]], [[putsch]] | |
| - | He was strongly affected by the [[socialism|Socialist ideas]] of the day, and these prompted his most famous works: ''[[Les Mystères de Paris]]'' (10 vols., 1842-1843) and ''[[Le Juif Errant]]'' (translated, "[[The Wandering Jew]]") (10 vols., 1844-1845), which were among the most popular specimens of the [[feuilleton|roman-feuilleton]]. | + | |
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| - | He followed these up with some singular and not very edifying books: ''Les Sept pêchés capitaux'' (16 vols., 1847-1849), which contained stories to illustrate each of the [[Seven Deadly Sins]], ''[[Les Mystères du peuple]]'' (1849-1856), which was suppressed by censor [[Ernest Pinard]] in 1857, and several others, all on a very large scale, though the number of volumes gives an exaggerated idea of their length. Some of his books, among them ''Le Juif Errant'' and the ''Mystères de Paris'', were dramatized by himself, usually in collaboration with others. | + | |
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| - | His period of greatest success and popularity coincided with that of [[Alexandre Dumas, père]], with whom he has been compared. Sue has neither Dumas's wide range of subject, nor, above all, his faculty of conducting the story by means of lively dialogue; he has, however, a command of terror which Dumas seldom or never attained. From the literary point of view his style is bad, and his construction prolix. | + | |
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| - | After the [[The Revolutions of 1848 in France|revolution of 1848]] he sat for Paris (the Seine) in the Assembly from April 1850, and was exiled in consequence of his protest against the ''[[coup d'état]]'' of [[December 2]], [[1851]]. This exile stimulated his literary production, but the works of his last days are on the whole much inferior to those of his middle period. Sue died at [[Annecy]] ([[Savoy]]) in 1857. | + | |
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| - | == Plagiarism of Sue's work == | + | |
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| - | Seven years after the publication of Sue's ''Les Mystères du peuple'', a French revolutionary named [[Maurice Joly]] plagiarized aspects of the work for his anti-[[Napoleon III]] pamphlet, ''Dialogues in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu'', which in turn was later adapted by the [[Prussia]]n [[Hermann Goedsche]] into an 1868 work entitled ''Biarritz'', in which Goedsche substituted [[Jews]] for Sue's infernal [[Jesuit]] conspirators. Ultimately, this material became incorporated directly into the notorious anti-Semitic [[hoax]], ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]''. | + | |
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